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A school is an educational institution (and, in the case of in-person learning, the building) designed to provide learning environments for the teaching of students, usually under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools that can be built and operated by both government and private organizations. The names for these schools vary by country (discussed in the Regional terms section below) but generally include primary school for young children and secondary school for teenagers who have completed primary education. An institution where higher education is taught is commonly called a university college or university.

In addition to these core schools, students in a given country may also attend schools before and after primary (elementary in the U.S.) and secondary (middle school in the U.S.) education. Kindergarten or preschool provide some schooling to very young children (typically ages 3–5). University, vocational school, college, or seminary may be available after secondary school. A school may be dedicated to one particular field, such as a school of economics or dance. Alternative schools may provide nontraditional curriculum and methods. (Full article...)

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Arlington Senior High School was a public high school in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. It was located in the city's North End neighborhood, north of Downtown Saint Paul. Arlington opened on September 3, 1996, and was the district's first new high schools since Humboldt Senior High School opened twenty years earlier.

By 2010, the school enrolled only 875 students in grades 9–12, despite having operated near its capacity of 2,000 during the years it was open. The school consistently served a population that was around 95% students of color, 50-60% ELL, and 90-95% students on free/reduced price lunch. The school was closed after the 2010–2011 school year. (Full article...)

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Robert College of Istanbul (Turkish: Istanbul Amerikan Robert Lisesi) is one of the most selective independent private high schools in Turkey. The Institution is the oldest American school still in existence in its original location outside of the United States, and has a long list of notable alumni, including Nobel Prize recipient Orhan Pamuk.

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1823 – Raffles Institution, the oldest school in Singapore, is founded by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles.

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1987 – In Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania rules against the Dover Area School District, holding that teaching intelligent design in public school biology classes violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

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1857 – Britain calls on the schoolboys of La Martiniere Lucknow to aid in the residency's defence during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Because of their contributions, La Martiniere Lucknow is the only school in the world to have been awarded royal battle honours

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... that Konawaena High School's 18th place finish in the 1990 World Solar Challenge was the basis for the 1996 film Race the Sun?
... that the 2009 film Heart of Stone is the story of Weequahic High School beset by gangs, and its principal working with Black and Jewish alumni and gang members to restore its glory prior to 1960?

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John Baldwin

John Baldwin (October 13, 1799 – December 28, 1884) was an American educator, and the founder of Baldwin Institute (later Baldwin University) in Berea, Ohio, which would eventually merge into Baldwin–Wallace College, now Baldwin-Wallace University. He was also the founder of Baker University and Baldwin City, Kansas, and contributed money to start schools in Bangalore, India that are today called Baldwin Boys High School, Baldwin Girls High School and Baldwin Co-Education Extension High School.

Born in Connecticut, Baldwin originally was a teacher in Maryland and Connecticut before moving to Ohio in the late 1820s. He became part of the lyceum movement and situated himself in Berea, Ohio. He helped found an abortive utopian settlement at Berea in 1836. Seeing the dissolution of the Norwalk Seminary, he opened Baldwin Institute in 1846. Nine years later, the Institute became Baldwin University. He moved to Kansas around 1857, laying the foundation for Baldwin City, Kansas, as well as Baker University. In his later life, he purchased a Louisiana plantation and made contributions to education in India late in his life. (Full article...)

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... that the 1892 Biddle vs. Livingstone football game was the first college football game ever played between historically black schools?
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... that two future deans of the University of Indonesia, Margono Soekarjo and Djamaloeddin, conducted the first surgery on conjoined twins in Indonesia?
... that a new high school for the Pasco School District had to expand with portable classrooms within eight years of opening?
... that John Lynch was at one point the only honors linguistics student at the University of Sydney?

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Image 1Nalanda - teaching platform (from History of education)
Image 2Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 3Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 4University of al-Qarawiyyin located in Fes, Morocco (from History of education)
Image 5Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012–2015) (from Online school)
Image 6A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 7First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 8Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 9The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 10Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 11Pomona College (from College)
Image 12György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 13Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)
Image 14Mosaic from Pompeii (1st c. BC) depicting Plato's Academy (from History of education)
Image 15Istanbul University (1453) was founded by sultan Mehmed II as a Darülfünun. On 1 August 1933, as part of Atatürk's reforms, it was reorganized and became the Republic's first modern university. (from History of education)
Image 16Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 17The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 18Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 19Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 20The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 21World map indicating Education Index (2007/2008 Human Development Report)
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(from History of education)
Image 22Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 23Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 24SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 25Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 26King's College London in 1831, as engraved by J. C. Carter. It is one of the founding institutions of University of London, established in 1836. (from History of education)
Image 27A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 28Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatoires (from Music school)
Image 29A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 30Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 31A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)
Image 32King's College London, established by royal charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London (from College)
Image 33Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 34Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012–2015) (from Online school)
Image 35A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 36Scripps College (from College)
Image 37Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 38One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 39The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 40Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 41Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 42Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 43St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 44Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 45Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 46Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 47St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 48Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 49A high school in Milan in the 1920s (from History of education)
Image 50Loyola School, Chennai, India – run by the Catholic Diocese of Madras. Christian missionaries played a pivotal role in establishing modern schools in India. (from School)
Image 51Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 52Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 53Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 54RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)
Image 55Typical school furniture of the period 1930s to 1950s in France (from History of education)
Image 56Established in 1224 by Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, University of Naples Federico II in Italy is the world's oldest state-funded university in continuous operation. (from History of education)
Image 57A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 58A classroom block with schoolbag racks in Western Sydney, Australia (from School)
Image 59Albert Bettannier's 1887 painting La Tache noire depicts a child being taught about the "lost" province of Alsace-Lorraine in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War – an example of how European schools were often used in order to inoculate Nationalism in their pupils. (from School)
Image 60Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 61Dansk Skolemuseum (from History of education)
Image 62Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 63City College of New York (from College)
Image 64Roman portraiture fresco of a young man with a papyrus scroll, from Herculaneum, 1st century AD (from History of education)
Image 65Literacy rates in Italy in 1861, shortly after the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy. Italy lacks Lazio and the Triveneto, which were subsequently annexed. (from History of education)
Image 66To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 67Aristotle and his disciples – Alexander, Demetrius, Theophrastus, and Strato, in an 1888 fresco in the portico of the National University of Athens (from History of education)
Image 68Bologna University in Italy, established in 1088 A.D., is the world's oldest university in continuous operation. (from History of education)

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